> took YouTube by storm
> japanese Bob Ross
sounds a bit exaggerated considering he only got 600k subs on youtube
CNN.. what's in their agenda? they want to fabricate celebrities?
> japanese Bob Ross
sounds a bit exaggerated considering he only got 600k subs on youtube
CNN.. what's in their agenda? they want to fabricate celebrities?
If you consider 600k subscribers to be paltry, perhaps you should focus your efforts on YouTube and leave the Hacker News community.
Not that you shouldn't have commented! but please do it with honey not vinegar. Sometimes users don't understand what the intended spirit of the site is yet. Pointing to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is always good of course.
It was very difficult for me to avoid getting personal and using ad hominem attacks in this particular case; I tried to temper my gut reaction by using language like "maybe this isn't the community for you" instead of harsher terms.
In reflection, though, it's not my place to judge others like that, or try and police the community. I apologize.
While yes, cnn is just grasping at smoke to stay relevant as less people care about "news", the guy is legit as a celebrity. Plus, he's actually good at his craft and even got an artistically challenged idiot like me into watercolor painting.
For most of us having any kind of direct impact on even a few thousand people in a lifetime is quite an achievement.
Also bare in mind that not everyone who follows YouTube contributors subscribe to their channel. So the actual number of people following his videos will be much higher (eg the tree video in that CNN article has over 5m visits)
If you are the first to identify it (or make it up where it doesn't exist) you automatically have an exclusive.